Transactions of The Indiana State Medical Association, Issue 47

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Page 3 - An equally striking indication of the solidity of the front of the United Nations is to be seen in the decisions of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference on postwar security. There is talk of...
Page 98 - Beginning with slight symptoms after several days' incubation, the process gradually increases, at first in intensity, then in extent, and reaches its acme in both respects at the end of the second or beginning of the third week.
Page 63 - ... than using atropine, and no risks are run in regard to starting glaucomatous tension, indeed the iridectomy surely prevents it. 3. It has been proved by actual experience that an iridectomy hastens the ripening of a cataract, so that the extraction may take place earlier and the soft cortical will not be left behind to start an iritis. The long tedium of waiting during an extended period of failing vision is very apt to be extremely irksome and depressing. In the aged there are few persons so...
Page 103 - ... serum is a specific curative agent for diphtheria, surpassing in its efficacy all other known methods of treatment for this disease. It is the duty of the physician to use it.
Page 5 - For years that city has been a -centre of the anti-vaccination craze, and so prevalent there was this particular form of idiocy, that the law in regard to the employment of this safest and most certain of all the prophylactics known to medical science has long been a dead letter. A whole generation of helpless children was allowed to grow up unguarded, and every school became simply an invitation to pestilence. Now the invitation has been accepted, and such an epidemic of smallpox...
Page 7 - It is futile to appeal to the humanity of the landlord, for he is the exception who voluntarily tears down a rickety house 'yielding twenty-five per cent, and puts up a sanitary tenement yielding ten per cent. " It is useless to look for reform to the tenants themselves, stolid and morally benumbed as they are. As long as unfit habitations exist they will find tenants, and there is only one way to solve the problem, and that is to invest the Board of Health with power of expropriation. Where a tenement...
Page 253 - He was a member of the County, District and State Medical Societies, a republican in politics and a member of the Masonic Fraternity.
Page 64 - ... risk, that of sloughing, is most marked where the cornea is thin and under nourished ; a state which may often be inferred from an inelastic condition of the skin of the hands, and from the absorption of subcutaneous fat ; and of which we obtain strong evidence when, at the time of the iridectomy, the cornea collapses or falls into wrinkles as soon as it loses the support of the aqueous humour. It was in cases of this class that Mooren obtained his most conspicuous successes by preliminary iridectomy...
Page 137 - ... most interesting in the series, as demonstrating first the dire results possible from this form of displacement, and secondly the efficacy of the therapeutic recourse. Until recent times comparatively little was known of the pathological conditions interfering with fertility. The last quarter of a century has matured our understanding considerably. Excluding the comparatively few cases of congenital sexual malformations which absolutely preclude fecundation, sterility must now be regarded as...
Page 93 - They show conclusively that the medulla of the suprarenal capsule contains a dialysable organic principle, soluble in water, and not destroyed by boiling for a short time, which produces a powerful physiological action upon the muscular system in general, but especially upon the skeletal muscles, the muscular walls of the blood vessels, and the muscular wall of the heart.

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